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Reliance Communications [RCOM] has acquired privately held leading provider of managed Ethernet and application delivery services for the global enterprise – Yipes Enterprise Services. RCOM is shelling out $300 Million for the acquisition in an all cash deal. Yipes was funded by JP Morgan Chase, Norwest Venture Partners, Sprout and Crosslink Capital.Continue Reading

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A readers of this blog, working for CISCO in Bangalore negotiated for a Reliance Broadband CUG connection, Here is what he has to say, One correction its not 15+ but applicable for 50+ connections. We needed a high bandwidth connection but with low data limit and within a budget of 600/pm as myContinue Reading

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Good News for residents of Bangalore. Just a while ago a reader of this blog tipped me with a mobile number. Bingo!!! Reliance Communications, a Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group company is the first company to launch Wimax for residential consumers in Bangalore / Bengalooru. [Sify has it for Corporates. Bangalore UnwiredContinue Reading

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Continuing the intensified battle for wireless supremacy in India, Reliance Communications has introduced lowest ever roaming rates on certain plans. Mr Shukla, President Wireless Business said, The roaming rates had already been reduced in Feb 2007 for our customers. Now, we have taken a step further by reducing roaming ratesContinue Reading

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India’s telecom regulator, TRAI has classified Google Talk, Yahoo! Voice Chat and other innovative VoIP applications as Grey Market operations and maybe cracked down. The report says [PDF] VoIP can also pose a threat to National Security. Good Grief!!! Looks like Mr. S.K. Gupta is following the footsteps of Mr. FailureContinue Reading

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Nikhil writes that Anil Ambani backed BigAdda.com [Alpha] has gone live but still in Invite only mode. Sure this is no big innovation [atleast for now], but Anil Ambani has set his eye sight to become the world’s media baron. Fortune & Forbes will find it irresistible to write about Anil Ambani’s growth from MobileContinue Reading

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Nokia and Siemens have meregd their network division and the entity is also the biggest benificiary of BSNL’s megatender. Nokia-Siemens’ chief, Ashish Chowdhary said that it is not too late for Indian Telcos to go the 3G way. Here is an official document that gives you more insight on Bangalore Unwired project. [PDF]Continue Reading

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State owned MTNL which saw negative growth in Wireline/Landline subscribers is bucking the trend now. MTNL is adding Landline subscribers mainly because of their ADSL broadband services in Delhi and Mumbai. Mumbai has more than 10 good ISPs but MTNL with huge copper network has the ability to reach corners of Mumbai,Continue Reading

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Just a while ago, Bharti Airtel released its results for FY07 [Ending March-31st]. It has 37 Million Wireless subscribers and 1.87 Million Broadband and Wireline subscribers. I was frantically searching for broadband subscribers. Report  says,  32% of Broadband & Wirleline subscribers are also subscribing to Broadband. This tells us that, Airtel has 0.59 Million BroadbandContinue Reading